Commentary: Rutgers' culpability should not stop at Mike Rice

11:48 PM,
Apr. 3, 2013

Written by

Christine Brennan
USA Today

Rutgers, of all universities, should have known better. Rutgers should have known that a coach who fires basketballs at the heads of his players and assaults them at practice should not keep his job. The so-called leaders of Rutgers University should have known that if a coach is hurling homophobic and misogynistic insults at his male players, he shouldn't be allowed to represent the school for one more hour, much less four more months.

Rutgers should have known better because the school already has lived through such things. Its women's basketball team was the model of grace and dignity six ...